Lectures/Literary
2025 Write on the River Writers Competition
Wenatchee Valley Museum & Cultural Center 127 South Mission, Wenatchee, Washington, United StatesDo you have a memoir brewing? Got good pages filed away? Feeling inspired to finish that story? Winter is a fine time to hone your writing or create something brand new, and the 2025 Writers Competition is a great way to reach discerning readers. Write On The River, in partnership with the Wenatchee Valley Museum […]
Scarecrow Video Zeitgeist ’25! – 2024: In Memoriam
For our first Zeitgeist '25! online gathering we cast a look back at the movie people who took their final bows during 2024. It's a strong roster of filmmakers who went to the big wrap party in the sky, from definitive actors such as James Earl Jones, Donald Sutherland, Gena Rowlands, and Maggie Smith, to […]
Navigating Untold Stories: A Historical Fiction Workshop
Wenatchee Valley Museum & Cultural Center 127 South Mission, Wenatchee, Washington, United StatesNavigate untold stories in this historical fiction workshop on Saturday, January 25, 6-9 PM. Explore local stories from our shared past at the Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural Center with Wenatchee Valley College English instructor, Zach Eddy. This will be a whole new adventure for both new and returning students. Learn new techniques to help […]
The League of Women Voters Moscow Spring 2025 Speaker Series will present “Becoming Braver Angels”: Depolarizing the United States. January 29, 2025 at the 1912 Center in the Arts Room from 12:00 p.m. until 1:00 p.m.
1912 Center, Arts Room 412 E. 3rd St., MoscowThis presentation will be an overview of the goals and opportunities offered by “Braver Angels,” a national organization that began in 2016 with the mission of “Building a House United.” The driving force behind this mission is: “Bringing Americans together to bridge the partisan divide and strengthen our democratic republic.” Participants will learn about ways […]
M. Gessen: Censorship, Silence, & Resistance
Whitman College- Maxey Hall 173 Stanton, Walla Walla, United StatesJoin the Center for Global Studies in welcoming M. Gessen, who will deliver the keynote address in our year-long series, The Press in Times of Peril. One of our most trenchant observers of democracy, M. Gessen is the author of eleven books, including the National Book Award-winning The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia […]
LIGO’s Night of Gravitational Wave Science and Music
LIGO Hanford Observatory 127124 N Route 10, Richland, WA, United StatesLIGO invites you to a Night of Gravitational Wave Science and Music, featuring musical compositions by artist harte echtzeit. Learn about the exciting science of gravitational waves, and how their real scientific data can inspire and be transformed into music. It took about 100 years for Einsteins prediction to become true, but in 2015 gravitational […]
Bridging the Past: A Conversation on History, Healing and Hope
Olin Hall Auditorium 920 E Isaacs, Walla Walla, WA, United StatesFor this conversation, leaders from Oregon Black Pioneers and Oregon Remembrance Project will discuss the importance of Oregon Black History, their joint efforts to create more Black space in Oregon, and the contemporary challenges facing Black advancement in the Pacific Northwest.
Colonizers Colonized?: The Nahuatlization of Colonial Spain and Modern Philosophy
Olin Hall Auditorium, 138We often acknowledge the devastating impact of settler-colonialism on the indigenous groups of the Americas. However, as anthropologists have been arguing for several decades, culture contact is at least bi-directional. So how did indigenous peoples influence their colonizers? This talk will focus on the interaction between Spanish missionaries and the Nahua ethnic group (a subset […]
How to Talk (or not) to Aliens: Socialist vs. Capitalist Science in Korean Science Fiction
idaho student union building 875 South Line Street, moscow, ID, United StatesDafna Zur, Associate Professor of Korean Literature at Stanford University, will speak on her new research on the differing approaches to science and technology as seen in North and South Korean science fiction. Professor Zur is a recipient of South Korea's Order of Cultural Merit for her contributions to the promotion of Korean language and […]
Epistemic Criminals: A workshop on poetry as philosophy
Olin Hall, 129Poets during the early modern period often used their chosen genres as a form of countercultural resistance against hegemonies of gender, knowledge, and political power. For these uses, the fact that poetry often equivocates and communicates through metaphor rather than factive statement works to its advantage. We will discuss some examples of these uses of […]